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Monday, September 24, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Matt Farmer still on Rahm's trail at Clemente

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Matt Farmer still on Rahm's trail at Clemente:


Matt Farmer still on Rahm's trail at Clemente

Matt Farmer
No topic has generated more heat and less light in the comments section of SmallTalk, than the Rahm/Brizard move to turn Clemente Community Academy High School into a "wall-to-wall" International Baccalaureate (IB) school. It was a move that led to the firing by new turn-around principal Marcey Sorensen, of some 24 Clemente teachers.

It also led public school parent, lawyer, and community activist Matt Farmer to pursue the paper trail leading to the IB conversion. Sensing something fishy here, he filed  an FOIA request on June 27 which of course was stonewalled by CPS.